31 Quotes About Euripides

I wish you joy. To spend life's fleeting days mid joy that never meets an evil hour is to be blessed beyond compare.

He loves power. A terrible love.

Yes, blood for blood, his bitter loan came due. He paid with death.

Euripides long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as a challenge to thought for those who are asleep.

We'll buy back our own harm with what is most dear to us.

Again, again your mind has changed course with the wind. For you think now of godly things ignored when you worked dreadful deeds on your brother against his will.

Apollo, your voice hymned a justice I could not see clear, but all too clear the anguish you caused, the bloodhaunted, homeless future you've doled out.

I will not stop singingthe Muses who set me dancing.

ORESTES: Never shall I see you again.ELECTRA: Nor I see myself in your eyes.ORESTES: This, the last time I'll talk with you ever.ELECTRA: O my homeland, goodbye. Goodbye to you, women of home.ORESTES: Most loyal of sisters, do you leave now?ELECTRA: I leave with tears blurring all that I see.